Anna Scholz Blog

We spend so much time at work, it’s inevitable that our style rubs off on and gets influenced by our colleagues. You know how it goes: you admire and copy a dress a co-worker wears; or you both happen upon the same website that’s having an amazing sale and decide to combine your orders to save on shipping…well, it’s certainly happend to us here at Anna Scholz.

Plus, we all have such fun wearing Anna’s great clothes that — more than once– two people have the exact same flash of outfit inspiration and …voilà! Double trouble!

Winnie and Anna sporting check print jersey

We happened upon this amusing tumblr called I Like Looking Like Other People (though that title doesn’t really seem to hit the mark of this particular phenomenon) which documents cases of co-workers caught wearing the same ensembles. These photos are a hoot, because you can feel the closeness between the people and it’s funny to see all of their work environments in the backgrounds.

Has this happened to you? See more twin photos!

The November issue of SLiNK magazine included a nice feature on the Curve Yoga practice of Anna’s dear friend (and former Anna Scholz fit model), Lucille Dweck.

Lucille has been a yoga instructor for years, but she decided to go more niche and to market herself as a curvy yoga instructor to curvy women. She thought it would be encouraging and less intimidating for curvy women to see a size 18 woman who is an established yogi and a bendy wonder. And it seems that curvy women are indeed responding!

Yoga is all about working on your individual strength, flexibility and focus. Being super thin or muscle-bound does not necessarily reflect how strong you are. The focus of Lucille’s instruction, the article says, “is to make you feel comfortable so that you can enjoy looking after yourself and improve your fitness in a welcoming, relaxing environment.”

For more information about one-on-one and small group classes, visit the Lucille Dweck Curve Yoga website

We’ve been dying to share more photos with you from the Curves in Couture show that featured Anna’s Spring-Summer 2012 White Label Collection last month. It was presented by the oranisation Models of Diversity and also benefitted The Advance Centre charity.

The fabulous Vogue Curvy blog –a favourite of Anna’s –  published some lovely photos from Anna’s catwalk show.

Our friend Em X who writes the fab blog Oh, the Places You’ll Go! joined us at the fashion show and published some great photos of her own!

To see more photos from the Curves in Couture charity fashion show, visit Oh, the Places You’ll Go! or Vogue Curvy

Yuta and Mauela Pasch have recently launched a website for their jewellery company called Yuta Pasch!

Anna has been a fan of the sisters’ designs for years. She established a friendship with the sisters when they’d chat at the CPD fashion and accessories trade market in Düsseldorf each season. Anna and her team (Lucille- the fit model; Penny- the design assistant; Kate- the production manager) would come back from CPD sporting the sisters’ latest quirky designs. Now this treasure trove of fun and affordable jewellery is just a click away!

Back in 1987, Yuta Pasch travelled all the way from Düsseldorf to New York’s Museum of Natural History, where she found the little tyrannosaurus toy that would become the cornerstone of her work as a jewellery designer.

From the get-go, magazines and shops were gaga for the fun jewellery, and Yuta’s sister, Manuela, joined her in establishing a workshop. They opened their first shop in Düsseldorf in 1991 and have been busy ever since.

They release a new collection twice a year based on current trends. But certain lucky talismans– such as Buddha, angel wings or Fatima’s protecting hand– remain a constant. “This is probably why our pieces often become a steady companion for the wearer,” muses Yuta. “…Each detail that we use has a history and a meaning—our jewellery has a soul.”

Though the size of their business has grown, the sisters remain very hands-on with their craft. Every piece is still manufactured in the small workshop in the back room of their store. They work with individual artisans and gem suppliers. “Our jewellery is made with love, and that is only possible if we keep taking an active part in the manufacturing,” says Yuta.

Visit their website for exquisite pieces that are trendy, quirky, beautiful and enduring.

The Anticode web shop, based in France, has done a lovely job of styling Anna’s Autumn-Winter 2011 collection.

It’s always fun to see how other retailers style our clothes, and we are especially inspired by the way Anticode’s model has been outfitted. Great footwear!

Visit  the Anticode website to see more of Anna’s styles as well as other lovely plus size clothes.

We couldn’t resist singing the praises of the navabi online shop again. It is worth the rave! navabi has been stocking Anna’s collections for several seasons now, and we always love the way the models are styled on the site. There is also a cool video feature alongside the still model photos — definitely worth checking out.

Here are just a few of the shots from the navabi web shop which we find inspiring:

Flip through navabi’s stylish online magazine– which includes an interview with Anna– or browse the web shop!

We love these photographs taken of model Lauren Koenig wearing Anna’s double silk leopard print blazer.  The sleek pencil skirt and chunky necklace give it a real sexy, retro vibe.

On this shoot:  Photographer, Oriana Layendecker;  stylist,  Megan Pfiffner; make-up, Rosemarie Bernardo; producer, Erica Lynn Young

Anna’s earth-tone bird of paradise print is big news this season. The great thing about this print is how versatile it is. It can look retro or thoroughly modern. There are as many ways wear this print and preen your plumage as there are birds in the sky.  We particularly love the way these two different publications have styled Anna’s bird print pieces.

PLUS Model magazine created a story with the model Kailee O’Sullivan, who has worked with Anna before.  Kailee’s rocking Anna’s silk bird print wrap dress with some fierce hair and accessories.

The ever slick and stylish SLiNK magazine has included Anna’s silk bird print frill tunic in a spread on 70s style. Don’t step on those blue suede boots!

Flick through PLUS Model magazine or SLiNK magazine online for more style  inspiration.

We’re loving these photographs of tattoos from Katie Ell’s exhibition entitled A Piece of My Mind. Some are humorous; some are haunting; all are meaningful.

The talented Katie Ell is the photographer behind the campaign imagery for Anna’s Black Label collection for Autumn-Winter 2011. The photo shoot for the Black Label took place in Anna’s London home. We had a lot of fun creating a 60s mod vibe with Katie.

Visit Katie Ell’s website to see more of her fabulous work.

You never know when you’re going to see a sign that just begs for a sarcastic retort. This website HappyPlace has numerous examples of people’s “brilliantly sarcastic responses to well-meaning signs”.

See them all here!